15-09-2003 03:56									#1
	Why some people in the US can't understand the metric system. Remove this text

I am correcting a worksheet for my sister (who is learning to be a teacher). It has two tables for the metric system on it, one on each side.
Table on side 1:

code:

Prefix   Value x Base Unit   Meters Symbol   Liters Symbol   Grams Symbol
Tera -   1,000,000,000,000         Tm             TL              Tg
Giga -     1,000,000,000           Gm             GL              Gg
Mega -       1,000,000             Mm             ML              Mg
Kilo -         1,000               Km             KL              Kg
Hecto -         100                Hm             HL              Hg
Deka -           10               Dkm            DkL             Dkg
Base Unit -       1                 m              L               g
deci -         1/10                dm             dL              dg
centi -        1/100               cm             cL              cg
milli -       1/1,000              mm             mL              mg
micro -     1/1,000,000           mcm            mcL             mcg
nano -    1/1,000,000,000          nm             nL              ng

code:

Tera-     Giga-     Mega-     Kilo-     Hecto-     Deka-     Base unit     deci-     centi-     milli-     Micro-     nano-
Tm        Gm        Mm        Km        Hm         Dkm       m             dm        cm         mm         mcm        nm
0.000001  0.00001   0.0001    0.001     0.01       0.1       1             10        100        1000       10000      100000

	15-09-2003 03:59									#2
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The bottom row of the bottom table. Duh.

	15-09-2003 04:00									#3
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decameter does not equatl 10 kilometers/kiloliters/kilograms and a micrometer does not equal 1/1,000,000 of a centimeter/centileter/centigram...

	15-09-2003 04:01									#4
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	15-09-2003 05:08									#5
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So, why can't some people in the US understand the metric system?

This whole thread seems quite pointless.. again.. for the 5th time.. ad nauseum... etc etc...

	15-09-2003 05:16									#6
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For the record, deci and centi are not metric.

	15-09-2003 05:21									#7
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Isn't there something smaller than nano ? I think I remember "pico" or something, but I'm unable to tell how much it is.

	15-09-2003 05:22									#8
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Because the teachers mess up and make worksheets wrong. People can't learn if they are taught wrong.

	15-09-2003 05:26									#9
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Yes, pico is smaller. Femto is even smaller.

	15-09-2003 05:29									#10
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quote: Originally posted by Anun Ik Oba Femto is even smaller.

Thanks. I didn't know at all about this one.

	15-09-2003 05:54									#11
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metric system sux

	15-09-2003 05:56									#12
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Dissident
What's 49 inches in miles? Or 32 furlongs in fathoms? 16 rods to the bar?

(I think all of those are real units ...the point: standardisation in a system of measurement is good.)

	15-09-2003 05:56									#13
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Why is the US system called "Standard", when it isnt? The standard system is metric, and the US system isn't standard.

	15-09-2003 05:58									#14
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it's Standard in the US

Well, Standard is the most standard (:dizzy name for it. There's English, Standard, Customary, and US or American can be pinned on to any one of those...hell, we can't even name our own system, much less learn metric

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the metric system is a communist plot to undermine the U.S.

	15-09-2003 06:09									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar Why is the US system called "Standard", when it isnt? The standard system is metric, and the US system isn't standard.

Everyone calls the US system (inches and crap) the "imperial system" where I'm from.

	15-09-2003 06:15									#17
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Either "imperial" or "old" system are the two terms I've heard used.

	15-09-2003 06:36									#18
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Its not that we can't.

We just choose not to. :P

	15-09-2003 06:40									#19
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quote: Originally posted by OzzyKP Its not that we can't. We just choose not to. :P

Didn't that cost you many million dollars?

	15-09-2003 06:56									#20
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In the United States, men measure their cocks by inches.

	15-09-2003 07:00									#21
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quote: Originally posted by MrFun In the United States, men measure their cocks by inches.

I suppose centimeters would be more impressive for this use. Instead of saying 6 one could say 15

	15-09-2003 07:02									#22
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quote: Originally posted by OzzyKP I suppose centimeters would be more impressive for this use. Instead of saying 6 one could say 15

	15-09-2003 09:22									#23
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quote: Originally posted by Anun Ik Oba Yes, pico is smaller. Femto is even smaller.

Both are huge compared to atto-.

	15-09-2003 09:23									#24
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident metric system sux

The English System sucks.

	15-09-2003 09:27									#25
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USA refuses to adopt metric system because it is French

We prefer the system of our British Fathers

	15-09-2003 09:28									#26
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The English system has the best of both worlds. We learn and calculate everything in metric and then express it all in imperial so that our American friends don't get confused whilst Europeans do..

	15-09-2003 09:31									#27
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I like metric, but in the end it really doesn't matter.

	15-09-2003 09:35									#28
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quote: Originally posted by MrFun In the United States, men measure their cocks by inches.

Speak for yourself

Some of us measure ours in YARDS

	15-09-2003 12:06									#29
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quote: Originally posted by mrmitchell Dissident What's 49 inches in miles? Or 32 furlongs in fathoms? 16 rods to the bar? (I think all of those are real units ...the point: standardisation in a system of measurement is good.)

What moron would measure something 49 inches long in miles?

	15-09-2003 12:25									#30
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quote: Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar Why is the US system called "Standard", when it isnt? The standard system is metric, and the US system isn't standard.

A'course it's standard! It's what we use, innit? Metric is fer them furrinners.